U.S. President Donald Trump attends a Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., October 31, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz

President Donald Trump is only making his unpopularity problem "worse" by ignoring his 2024 campaign promises, according to a former Republican Party spokesperson.

During a Tuesday segment on MSNBC, Tim Miller — who was deputy communications director at the Republican National Committee (RNC) during former President Barack Obama's administration — told "Deadline: White House" host Nicolle Wallace that Trump wasn't doing himself any favors with the narrow majority of voters that elected him by almost completely ignoring their concerns about the high prices of basic needs like groceries and healthcare.

Miller observed that the current economy belonged entirely to the Trump administration, despite Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's recent argument that the Trump administration inherited an affordability crisis. Miller countered that the indifference of the administration toward working-class Americans was "more stark now than it's ever been in awhile."

"Obviously whoever's the president was going to own the economy at some level," Miller said. "Like, you could imagine an alternate Trump universe where he just even rhetorically focuses on working-class stuff, working class affect. And we all rolled our eyes at if you go back to the campaign and he's in the McDonald's [drive-thru] and he's a big boy in the truck, right? Like you do that!"

"If he just did that kind of stuff where he was talking about the supposed forgotten man that he was supposed to care about, and he didn't do the tariffs that are unconstitutional and are actually hurting people," Miller continued. "And he listened to Steve Bannon and did a tax hike — even a small one — on the wealthiest as part of the [Big Beautiful Bill], you could imagine a totally different political situation."

According to Miller, Trump had "done all this to himself," claiming that the president "stopped caring about regular folks' concerns" and is instead inwardly focused on "his gilded White House and bombing boats in Venezuela and the trophies that he's getting in Korea." He added that Trump's lone domestic policy achievement was a bill that "cut taxes for the rich" and that his key policy of imposing tariffs on virtually every major trade partner "just raises costs on everybody."

"This is just a mess of his own making," Miller said. "And frankly, I just think it gets worse as you go into next year because he's already done the things that he was said he was going to do to allegedly help the economy, and it's all backfiring."

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